Tag: wabisabi

  • Watching the sunrise

    I watch the sunrise almost every day. Even if I don’t set alarms, I’m just to waking up around that time. This week, and for the foreseeable future, I’m setting my alarms an hour earlier to try to be more productive. While that hasn’t happened yet, I’m not worried about being extra productive this week,…

  • A beautiful day

    Were there any imperfections contained within today? Probably, but they were insignificant. When perfections are insignificant enough, they can barely be said to exist. But, when imperfections are significant, then it is worth doing some work to make them less imperfect.

  • My hopes

    I hope that anyone reading this, now or any day in the future, has a beautiful, though imperfect, day. Look for ways to make your day as beautiful as possible. Compliment people that you see. Eat a meal that you cherish. Read a book that you love. Create something that you are proud of.

  • Absent Imperfections

    While I can’t completely say that today was perfect, there really aren’t any imperfections that I noticed. The weather was nice. The traffic wasn’t bad. I didn’t accomplish as much as I had hoped to, but I accomplished a pretty good amount. Sometimes it’s good to have a day without significant wins or losses. Today…

  • Imperfect Progress

    I made an offhand comment earlier tonight which I think might become the subject of a book. In a conversation about quitting smoking, which I have succeeded at 4 or 5 times this year already, someone was talking about how they had done well for a while and then backslid. I told them that I…

  • An interesting quote

    I got this from Tim Ferriss’s facebook page, but it’s probably on his other social media as well. “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― ​James Baldwin I never really…

  • Seek the beauty within imperfection

    Yesterday I mentioned that muses aren’t real. It occurs to me that it might be useful to explain that a little more thoroughly. Writer’s block is a commonly used term even though it’s less than a hundred years old. We have romanticized all forms of artistic creation to the extent that it is more harmful…

  • Getting back to work

    Well, the advantage of not having an actual audience is that no one minds if I take a break, even if it’s a long break. The short version is that life has been imperfect. The long version is, well, long, and not really important. It’s time to get back to work. It may take a…

  • Goals, systems, and imperfections

    I like to read about productivity and achievement a lot, because that’s basically the American dream, kicking ass and taking names and relaxing on a throne made of gold. And it occurred to me that this is another place where kintsugi ideas come into play. Well, technically, wabisabi ideas, but I had an interesting picture…

  • There is a crack in everything

    that’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen I think about this line and song a lot whenever I work on kintsugi. Sometimes we have to create the cracks in ourselves, our life, our thoughts, our feelings, our beliefs, to let any sort of light in. And while many elements of life can seem stressful,…